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Ricochet: Home Again

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It is beautiful, ugly, and divided by color and money

I'm in a car. I'm in the town where I grew up. It is beautiful, ugly, and divided by color and money. Every time I go back, there's more experience packed into my mind from life outside my hometown, so the place looks different again. But nothing much has changed in Catonsville, Maryland. The shops are dinky, the sky and power lines gorgeous somehow.

The concept for the video series, Ricochet: Thought to Idea, is pretty simple. I shoot images and match them with my spoken-word pieces: funny stories about something that really happened, or an abstract concoction of things that bounce through my mind. They're little art videos that make you think. (By the way, what are you thinking right now?)

Juliana Luecking, aka Queen Juliana, is the MOLI View's contributing editor for Life & Love.

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